If you’d followed my blog for a while you know I keep making the same hat over and over again (but in different yarns).
The pattern is called Rolled Brim Hat and it is very comforting to me to knit it (and I think I could knit it in my sleep). No matter how much I try to convince myself to expand my skills and try and more complex pattern (or just any other hat pattern), I keep returning to this pattern and I’ve customized it to fit my head how I like the hat to drape.
And this hat is great to work on during travel (as I can mindlessly make it), I worked on one during our trip to Ireland in October as well as on various other trips.
I’ve made the hat in numerous colors – for me and for gifts for family and friends, however one of my favorite yarn colors of hat was gray. The yarn was an acrylic/wool blend (Lions Brand Yarn).
Here I am a couple years ago wearing one of my favorite Tierney-knitted hats and tormenting Mike the Miniature Schnauzer to selfies:
Last year my friend Blair really needed a winter hat and he has an usual shaped head for hats. He and his wife were having trouble finding him the right hat. We were out to dinner with them one evening and I let him try on my gray hat and it worked perfectly for him. So I gave him my beloved gray hat.
I thought I would be okay as I have a lot of other hats but I kept missing that hat.
Summer 2022 I found a skein in the back of my yarn stash of the same gray acrylic/wool blend yarn I used for my first gray hat and decided I need to just make myself a hat to replace the one I gave up.
The other day I finished my replacement gray hat!
I am very pleased. It might look boring to you but it makes me very happy!
But here is the real reason for this post – I wanted an excuse to share with you all – HATMAN (no relation to Batman, ha!).
While we were stuck in Washington DC (see post A Christmas and a New Years Miracle? (Part II) ) I worked on this hat and at one point I wanted to make sure it was long enough before I began the process of decreasing my stitches to the crown/top of hat to complete it.
My partner John agreed to let me test it out on him (which the knitting needles attached) and he got quite silly with it and became HATMAN.
I am not sure if he plans to fight crimes and serve justice while wearing it (and will those knitting needles give him super powers?!?!). We had quite the laugh, especially when John added in his sunglasses!
Closing this post with a little history on this hat: I first knitted the Rolled Brim Hat in 2011 and I shared photos from 2011 of my first knitted hat in this post from February 2021 – My First Knitted Hat.
Here I am in 2011, braces and all (oooh less wrinkles 11+ years ago!) with the first version of this hat (which I made too small for my head):
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Hilarious! The Hatman!
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I wonder if DC Comics will pick him up as a feature, thought fighting crime with knitting needles might not be successful – ha!
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That would be a cool comic!
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Very fun! And I agree, having a hat pattern you can knit from memory is very comforting. And I love the grey version, might have to make one myself!
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Thanks for stopping by Shannon and my goal is one in every color I can imagine – ha! (and perhaps I will learn a new pattern someday…)
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I want to learn to make a knitted or crocheted hat! Hmmm. I wonder if I have a book with instruction? 🤣😎
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I can teach you my one pattern next time we are together, but you might have a book somewhere…lol 😉
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Yes!!!
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HatMan’s kinda creepy-clowny and gnomish all at the same time! I do like how you’ve tamed the beast within to be a willing ‘model’
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I have to agree, it is not John’s best look but it make me laugh 🙂
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Me, too! Just sayin’…
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I used to knit a hat – over and over again – my partner at the time loved that style and of course the different colours I used. One time he went to the store to buy something, he took his hat off and then when he realised it wasn’t on his head, he went back – NO ONE had handed it in! He was distraught – and when he came to see if I had another, I’d by then lost the pattern and my mojo for that style. I made him a different one, ap[apparently that wasn’t any good! And by then he wasn’t my “partner”…. good bye!
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I hope the lost hat wasn’t the end of it all (just kidding) – maybe I should just stick with the same pattern and not deviate…hmmm 🙂
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That was very generous of you to gift your beloved gray hat. I’m so glad you were able to knit a new one for yourself! Hatman seems to have the superpower of incognito.
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Yes! That might be his super power. Also no one would probably sit next time him on a train so he has the power of extra legroom ha!
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What a heart-warming (head-warming) gesture to give your favourite hat to a friend who needed it. Thank you for this lovely post. Chuckled to see John as a head dummy and enjoyed the pic of you in the red hat. Keep knitting!
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Thanks so much and I’ve made that hat pattern several times for family and friends and I was on several other deadline projects at the time and was perhaps being more lazy than kind by not making him a new hat – ha!
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Nice hats! No wonder you keep making them : )
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Thanks so much, I bet there are more of them in my future, ha! 🙂
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LOL! Love the Hatman look 🙂 That is a great hat, and I’m glad you were able to remake your gray hat! It does look so cozy and like a fun knit 🙂
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Thanks so much 😀
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